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Call for Creative Submissions: Solidarities Wasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction…

Wasafiri invites creative submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in response to navigating interlinked global systems of oppressions and seeking to forge transnational solidarities across various boundaries.

DEADLINE: Sunday 24 August, 2025 11.59pm BST

Fascinating to see Kara Walker and Otto Dix next to each other — Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart

Caste, Protest, Pedagogy — Peopling the Palaces Festival Swati Arora in conversation with Malavika Priyadarshini Rao An online event, with an in-person screening option. A link will be provided after tickets are booked. As state surveillance and ideolog...

Caste, Protest, Pedagogy

We spoke about the spatial and affective politics of Dalit protests and their significance for educational institutions and transnational movements of freedom today. Malavika's brilliant book on it is out next month.

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About (Kill)joys, Grievances, and Resistance CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts is Glasgow’s hub for the arts, hosting exhibitions, films, music, literature, workshops, festivals and performances.

Hi Glasgow – I'll be at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Wed for a roundtable on imagining institutional change. Come say hello if you're around.

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Swati Arora - Huddle: Disobedient Women and Performance in India This talk focuses on a contemporary performance in Delhi, mobilising intersectional questions around gender, performance, city, and space.

Join us at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social at 1pm, Thursday 22 May to hear @swatiarora.bsky.social speak on contemporary performance in Delhi, mobilising intersectional questions around gender, performance, city, and space:
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A massacre has reignited the forever war between India and Pakistan – once more, Kashmiri voices are missing The people of Kashmir have had little or no say in their future for as long as I can remember. This cycle must end, says novelist Mirza Waheed

I wrote about the forever war between India and Pakistan and the silencing of Kashmir.

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Sara Ahmed, 'No! The Art and Activism of Complaining' QMUL Annual Catherine Silverstone Lecture: Sara Ahmed - an in-person lecture followed by reception

I am not sure whether Bluebell is coming to this lecture (ok, I know she isn't) but hey, she loves me. Come along & say no 🔊I am so glad to be honouring Catherine Silverstone's life & work.That no, when amplified, picks up her emphasis on history and haunting.
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The sun is out, and there must be thousands here. This is giving me life.

So pleased to be back on home ground today, and what timing—

“None of us know where this is going. It's not looking good, but what do I want to spend the rest of my life doing? Being fully alive, being with other people, being in it together, taking risks, being really, really caring, learning to love people even if they annoy me. Learning deeper love.”

needed to blast abida parveen on headphones at 8am to make it to work today

let's make 'em beasts

my students are the best 😭

but is actual poetry pure tho

‘Release Umar Khalid, Anti-CAA Activists’: 160 Academics, Activists, Filmmakers Sign Letter Khalid completes 1600 days in prison on January 30, 2025, which coincides with the 77th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the statement points out.

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The new performance studies reader is here and I'm in *such* gorgeous company. An absolute joy to be snuggling up to my fave @saranahmed.bsky.social too 💛

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exactly.

Internship Opportunity: Wasafiri CHASE Editorial Placement An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement.

🚨 Internship Alert! 🚨
An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. Full details on the placement, and how to apply, here:
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These final weeks before publication are the strangest times of being an author. Part of you wants to protect the book you’ve been quietly loving into being for so long. And then there’s the part which knows you have to take a deep breath and hoof it out the door

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Book Launch: Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms Join us for the launch of a groundbreaking exploration of decolonial, intersectional, and transnational feminist dialogues.

Our beautiful collaborative project is out in paperback and we're gathering next week to celebrate ✨

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joy 🖤🖤

"If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present."